By doing what I suggested I do, I actually AM driving with the general road conditions in this area...if you stop at a light that turns yellow, you will be rear ended by at least 2 cars.
After a few accidents, people will start to get the message. If this is the only way people in your area will learn then it's the way people in your area will have to learn.
Basically you're being part of the problem... and promoting that others do the same, you do need your license taken off you.
Now running a red light means that they have to build a timer into the red on both sides to prevent right angle crashes which are significantly more deadly and disruptive than rear end crashes (which rarely results in a fatality). The extended light timing will cause more disruption to traffic making your overall route slower. In effect, you're punishing everyone for your impatience.
In Australia we prefer using red light cameras as it doesn't punish everyone, only the people who run red lights. People who repeatedly run red lights end up having their licenses revoked.
Finally, I'm a defensive driver. If you're approaching a green light, you should be preparing to stop. This means you pay attention to the light and travel at a steady speed, I move my right foot over the brake (I drive a manual, not that anyone should left foot brake). If the light turns yellow you should already be aware of if you have sufficient time to stop safely (because you're paying attention) so no indecision here. You're pretty much the opposite of a defensive driver, we call your kind "organ donors".
You also have people from out of town that have learned their own light timing system and have an expectation when they visit you.
Basically, what you need is a national code for the programming of lights.
We have it in Australia, yellow light timing is the same nationally and you can report shortened yellow lights to the local council or state roads department. The biggest problem is with old lights using a mechanical system for timing (yes they still exist, its expensive to replace every traffic light in the country when new tech comes out) as these systems malfunction.
All the better to keep the ugly sheelas away with eh? Chuck another shrimp on the barbee skip!!!
Bugger me, another flaming mongrel is trying to speak 'strayan but using shrimp instead of prawn...
Get the tractor beam warmed up Bazza. I'll move the Camira so we can get to the Torana so we can get the Commo out of the shed. I'm pissed as buggery now.
No, it and of itself won't be meaningful. That's the crowdsource bit.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
Trying to crowd source weather prediction will only result in wildly inaccurate predictions. Many smartphone users work in a climate controlled office... travel there in a climate controlled car from their climate controlled home. So the 5-10 minutes they spend outside wont provide enough data especially if it doesn't have accurate location and elevation data.
So actual meteorologists will continue to be more reliable than this crowdsoruced application.
Yeah, my first thought was "one queue for tokens and another location for pickup using the single-queue-to-multiple-registers". This blog post was more along the lines of, "durr, me like ice, get now" than an actual "algorithm."
There should be two lines. One line for people who can queue like the British and one line for everyone else.
Snipers will pick out anyone who queues in to the British line and cant queue like the British.
One supermarket chain around Albany, NY tried implementing the single line system about a year ago. It only lasted a few months before they reverted.
At least at the grocery store, people disliked feeling corralled like cattle more than they dislike waiting slightly longer in a less efficient line. Might have been the way it was implemented, honestly. It had a rather frenetic feel to it, with the line “leader” guiding people to one of the actual registers with quite a bit of urgency and insistence. I’d guess there was probably some misguided, management-imposed, career-limiting metric system associated with the process such that the employee ultimately paid the price if customers dawdled and brought the throughput numbers down. That translated to a rather jarring mood to the whole thing.
Some stores have implemented this in several stores in Australia, one line served by a dozen checkouts and it actually is faster. The biggest issue is that they have more room to line the area with impulse items (not an issue for me as I can ignore impulse items, but I understand the point).
Airport check-in does it as well for the same reason. When you're processing 2-500 people which can take 5 to 15 minutes a piece (Oh dear god, she's fumbling through her 16 suitcases for her passport) having a longer line serviced by multiple people is faster and more efficient. However the lines tend to need a little bit of management, but it stops people from jumping from line to line and eliminates confusion. My only issue is with slow pokes... but I just overtake them when they take too long picking up their bags and moving forward.
However this isn't the right approach for a drinks line (who lines up for ice?), it's the opposite of a checkout or airport check in where the transaction is expected to take several minutes. With a drinks line you want people to get in and out as fast as possible, the best way to do this is to have multiple satellite stations rather than one main station to distribute the load but this is difficult and expensive.
Though I'm not a bit fan of MS... They continually have shown that they have no problem leaving old architecture in the dust -- when it suits them. When 2K3 came out, they made a "code optimization" change that left all P1, P2, P-Pro multi-processors behind. Few of their drivers are compatible from one version of an OS to another (and they can be digitally signed to one version). MS has not problem leaving "old" tech in the dust.
Because Mac chose a bad font.. don't attack MS.
To be 100% fair to MS, whilst their drivers may be platform specific, 99% of applications still work from version to version. Few operating systems can claim this kind of backwards compatibility. I can still run most of my DOS and Win 9x programs on a Windows 7 boxen without an emulator. So MS aren't exactly leaving their architecture in the dust.
The problem Apple fanboys have is not that Apple chose a bad font, it's that Apple can do no wrong so they need to defend Apples choice no matter how bad it is.
About time desktops caught up with better screen resolutions after the whole 1080p marketing hype ruined everything.
Erm, you've been able to buy PC monitors with resolutions higher than 1080p for nearly a decade now. Cheap 2560 x 1440 monitors have been available for years. Even Dell sells a 5K monitor today.
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math.
If you dont need a computer, a Dell lasts as long as any Mac.
However if you've got real requirements for a computer (I.E. work or gaming) then a Macbook goes out of date faster than a Dell because the dell is both higher speced and upgradeable.
I thought the 7, despite all the stellar reviews was garbage. Crummy battery life makes it unusable. I might get a day or two on this. The random reboots don't help either.
Which "7" are you talking about?
I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 (LTE version) that gets 5 to 7 days on battery (depending on usage) and has never randomly rebooted.
The only time I ever have had less than 2 days battery life was when I watched 8 hours of video in one go when flying on a budget airline.
I drive past the location they're going to build the data centers every day. It's mainly decrepit farms and grasslands. It's a common place for grass fires
How many people do these things usually employ?
In other words, where land is cheap.
DC's dont normally employ that many people.
The Apple store has the same problems as the Android store. Apple has no real advantage in this regard. People that think they do are just stupid fanboys kidding themselves.
This x 1000.
The only app store I have seen that doesn't suffer from a large volume of similar crap applications is Steam... but Steam is a special case as video games take a lot of resources to develop so making crap clone games is too expensive to be viable.
It's hard to find a good application on Android or Iphone and trial and error sucks, both figuratively and literally (my battery life).
You want people to actually listen to it? Fine. Put a machine in the waiting area and require people to enter the machine and listen to the speech for 30 seconds, before being given a 'boarding order.'.
If you read the article, or even just the summary you'd know it's not about the safety video (which you should pay attention to, even if you've seen it before as things occasionally change)* it's about people not listening to instructions issued by flight attendants in person or over the PA that are not part of the usual safety briefing. This is not uncommon, in fact a flight attendant has to tell several people to put their tray tables and seat backs up every single flight and this is hard enough to do with arrogant and selfish people when they can hear you.
I dont envy their jobs, but I do respect them and listen to them (especially since if I have a medical emergency on a flight, they will be the ones helping me).
* look at how many people in this thread still think cushions are flotation devices, that's why people need to pay attention.
This analogy would ALMOST work except for there aren't 42 italian restaurants lined up, side by side, doing the same thing, all for $.99 with the only visible difference being olive garden vs olive g4rden.
In London and various other cities there is "China Town" with Many Chinese restaurants. Amongst them is Mr Wu's which is an all you can eat buffet for 5UKP (about US$8).
In Manchester there is curry mile with many Indian restaurants. Again many are very cheap.
It is a completely valid analogy.
Not really, I've been to many places like this "Curry mile" you speak of. There's a crap-load of them in Asia and I love them (in fact this Curry Mile sounds like a wonderful place). The thing is, they're all selling something different. You dont have 32 stalls selling the same variety of noodles, there's a lot of variety even to someone who has no idea about the culture they're eating in. Everything is cheap and you end up getting 4 or 5 different things but still comes down to less than you'd spend at Burger King.
A better analogy is 32 McDonalds all in a row. All doing the same thing but having slightly different names. Very few app stores dont suffer from this (Steam would be the only one I can think of off the top of my head) the difference is in how they manage it.
Thanks God we have flight attendants taking care of our self... What if the passenger doesn't care about it's OWN safety? Let him ignore the safety instructions, it's his own decision! FAA and/or the flight attendants are not our mothers..
What if that passenger is between you and the exit?
Here's the thing, I care about safety (not just mine but yours as well, I'm a nice guy like that) so I dont want to have to deal with people who are too ignorant, arrogant or self-entitled to care about safety putting my life in danger.
I think the No-Fly list needs to be expanded to include idiots that are too ignorant or arrogant about safety.
United has a cheesy video too, where the presenter is in a bumpy taxi talking about seatbelts and on a beach talking about stowing tray tables and putting your seats in their full upright and locked position for takeoff.
You haven't seen the terrible video done by Air New Zealand... it's demonstrated by the All Blacks*, the New Zealand national rugby team. That takes cheesy safety videos to a new level of cringeworthyness.
*Yes, they really are called the "All Blacks" and they're not all black.
You mean the Miracle on the Hudson where exactly 0% of the people took their seat cushion which can be used as a flotation device? Well done, flight attendants. Well done.
Yes, that means they did it right. People carrying seat cushions would have slowed down the evacuation.
I've travelled to 5 continents on dozens of different airlines, no airline has ever suggested using the seat cushions as flotation devices. You have a life jacket under your seat (or in the compartment beside your seat in business class) which you are told not to inflate until you leaving the aircraft as inflating it inside the aircraft slows down the evacuation. Also, the emergency slides are rafts (and you're told to remove all pointed footwear before using the slides.
Silly ideas like "the cushions are flotation devices" are the reason people need to listen to safety announcements rather than assuming that they know everything. On every airline I've flown on, the seat cushions aren't even removable.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
Actually, the brace position does have a huge effect on your survival of a crash landing. It stops your head accelerating rapidly forward, and then backward relative to your body. That illiminates a whole huge class of possible brain injuries.
I think people dumb enough to think the brace position doesn't help or that flight attendants not need to issue emergency instructions aren't at risk from brain injuries.
They don't want people looking at their devices with their headphones in when the captain says "brace for impact" a moment before you're supposed to land normally. It's not that hard to just be ready for an important announcement before takeoff and landing. And they're right that you want everything stowed away for those two phases of the flight.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
No you wont. You'll sue the airline for not making the announcement clear enough. Airline will lose and they'll ban PED completely. Personally, I dont want this scenario.
Are people that afraid to be left alone with their thoughts for five minutes that they cant put their tablets down. The article said,
the union would also be fine with a policy that allows devices to be turned on during takeoff and landing, as long as they're stowed away.
Why is it that hard for people to put down their tablets for 5 minutes during the most dangerous time of the flight? Are people really that self-entitled these days (and I used to argue against this so I really dont want it to be true).
I'd also like to point out, from the article:
But the attendants union is concerned about the safety implications of the move. They claim that in at least one instance, a tablet "became a projectile during turbulence,"
First let me say, I fucking told you so. For years I've been saying the real threat is from tablets and phones becoming projectiles. For years people have been calling this nonsense and I'm going to trust a cabin crew union over a butterfingered tablet owner any day.
Now this is only a significant risk during specific situations such as take off, landing and heavy turbulence. Is it really too much to ask that people demonstrate a little common sense and self restraint... and put the devices away during these specific times. I use my tablet all the time on budget airlines... but I know enough about flying to stow it when things get a little too rough. This is made even worse by the fact people aren't even holding onto their tablets, I mean, who holds a 10" tablet for 6 hours... Fuck no, you lean it against the seat in front or on the tray table, sit back and enjoy your video. As it's only being held there by it's own weight the risk of it becoming a projectile during turbulence is very real.
Finally yes, I've been asked to stow my dead tree based book for take off on several airlines ranging from Southwest to Singapore to Cebu Pacific.
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After a few accidents, people will start to get the message. If this is the only way people in your area will learn then it's the way people in your area will have to learn. Basically you're being part of the problem... and promoting that others do the same, you do need your license taken off you.
Now running a red light means that they have to build a timer into the red on both sides to prevent right angle crashes which are significantly more deadly and disruptive than rear end crashes (which rarely results in a fatality). The extended light timing will cause more disruption to traffic making your overall route slower. In effect, you're punishing everyone for your impatience.
In Australia we prefer using red light cameras as it doesn't punish everyone, only the people who run red lights. People who repeatedly run red lights end up having their licenses revoked.
Finally, I'm a defensive driver. If you're approaching a green light, you should be preparing to stop. This means you pay attention to the light and travel at a steady speed, I move my right foot over the brake (I drive a manual, not that anyone should left foot brake). If the light turns yellow you should already be aware of if you have sufficient time to stop safely (because you're paying attention) so no indecision here. You're pretty much the opposite of a defensive driver, we call your kind "organ donors".
Basically, what you need is a national code for the programming of lights.
We have it in Australia, yellow light timing is the same nationally and you can report shortened yellow lights to the local council or state roads department. The biggest problem is with old lights using a mechanical system for timing (yes they still exist, its expensive to replace every traffic light in the country when new tech comes out) as these systems malfunction.
All the better to keep the ugly sheelas away with eh? Chuck another shrimp on the barbee skip!!!
Bugger me, another flaming mongrel is trying to speak 'strayan but using shrimp instead of prawn...
Get the tractor beam warmed up Bazza. I'll move the Camira so we can get to the Torana so we can get the Commo out of the shed. I'm pissed as buggery now.
You know what they say: "The plural of Anecdote is not Data".
Wouldn't that be "the plural of anecdote are not data"?
/Throws grammar grenade and runs.
(I see you capitalised it, are you be referring to this Data)
No, it and of itself won't be meaningful. That's the crowdsource bit.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
Trying to crowd source weather prediction will only result in wildly inaccurate predictions. Many smartphone users work in a climate controlled office... travel there in a climate controlled car from their climate controlled home. So the 5-10 minutes they spend outside wont provide enough data especially if it doesn't have accurate location and elevation data.
So actual meteorologists will continue to be more reliable than this crowdsoruced application.
Hmmm, a spaceship full of horny Chinese women. (jumping up and down in the back row) Oh! Pick me pick me...
The problem is that right behind you will be a second, larger spaceship full of Chinese mothers judging you and Chinese fathers disproving of you.
Yeah, my first thought was "one queue for tokens and another location for pickup using the single-queue-to-multiple-registers". This blog post was more along the lines of, "durr, me like ice, get now" than an actual "algorithm."
There should be two lines. One line for people who can queue like the British and one line for everyone else.
Snipers will pick out anyone who queues in to the British line and cant queue like the British.
One supermarket chain around Albany, NY tried implementing the single line system about a year ago. It only lasted a few months before they reverted.
At least at the grocery store, people disliked feeling corralled like cattle more than they dislike waiting slightly longer in a less efficient line. Might have been the way it was implemented, honestly. It had a rather frenetic feel to it, with the line “leader” guiding people to one of the actual registers with quite a bit of urgency and insistence. I’d guess there was probably some misguided, management-imposed, career-limiting metric system associated with the process such that the employee ultimately paid the price if customers dawdled and brought the throughput numbers down. That translated to a rather jarring mood to the whole thing.
Some stores have implemented this in several stores in Australia, one line served by a dozen checkouts and it actually is faster. The biggest issue is that they have more room to line the area with impulse items (not an issue for me as I can ignore impulse items, but I understand the point).
Airport check-in does it as well for the same reason. When you're processing 2-500 people which can take 5 to 15 minutes a piece (Oh dear god, she's fumbling through her 16 suitcases for her passport) having a longer line serviced by multiple people is faster and more efficient. However the lines tend to need a little bit of management, but it stops people from jumping from line to line and eliminates confusion. My only issue is with slow pokes... but I just overtake them when they take too long picking up their bags and moving forward.
However this isn't the right approach for a drinks line (who lines up for ice?), it's the opposite of a checkout or airport check in where the transaction is expected to take several minutes. With a drinks line you want people to get in and out as fast as possible, the best way to do this is to have multiple satellite stations rather than one main station to distribute the load but this is difficult and expensive.
Dearest Bennett Hasselton,
Your idea to shorten lines will not work because of the following reasons:
(X) People aren't logical or rational.
Thank you and have a pleasant day.
Reality
Though I'm not a bit fan of MS... They continually have shown that they have no problem leaving old architecture in the dust -- when it suits them. When 2K3 came out, they made a "code optimization" change that left all P1, P2, P-Pro multi-processors behind. Few of their drivers are compatible from one version of an OS to another (and they can be digitally signed to one version). MS has not problem leaving "old" tech in the dust.
.. don't attack MS.
Because Mac chose a bad font
To be 100% fair to MS, whilst their drivers may be platform specific, 99% of applications still work from version to version. Few operating systems can claim this kind of backwards compatibility. I can still run most of my DOS and Win 9x programs on a Windows 7 boxen without an emulator. So MS aren't exactly leaving their architecture in the dust.
The problem Apple fanboys have is not that Apple chose a bad font, it's that Apple can do no wrong so they need to defend Apples choice no matter how bad it is.
At least you had grass. Do you know how hard it is to get anything done when all you have to work with is a primordial subatomic particle soup?
Primoridal soup?
Luxury.
I still have coalesce these hydrogen and helium atoms into a star...
About time desktops caught up with better screen resolutions after the whole 1080p marketing hype ruined everything.
Erm, you've been able to buy PC monitors with resolutions higher than 1080p for nearly a decade now. Cheap 2560 x 1440 monitors have been available for years. Even Dell sells a 5K monitor today.
Its just Apple that's playing catch-up
I spent $1,200 on my Black MacBook and got eight years of use ($150 per year). Prior to that, I spent $1,200 on a Dell laptop that gave me three years of use ($400 per year). Do the math.
If you dont need a computer, a Dell lasts as long as any Mac.
However if you've got real requirements for a computer (I.E. work or gaming) then a Macbook goes out of date faster than a Dell because the dell is both higher speced and upgradeable.
I thought the 7, despite all the stellar reviews was garbage. Crummy battery life makes it unusable. I might get a day or two on this. The random reboots don't help either.
Which "7" are you talking about?
I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 (LTE version) that gets 5 to 7 days on battery (depending on usage) and has never randomly rebooted.
The only time I ever have had less than 2 days battery life was when I watched 8 hours of video in one go when flying on a budget airline.
This is how to speak 'Strine ya Drongo...
That's pronounced 'Strayan, ya flamin mongel.
I drive past the location they're going to build the data centers every day. It's mainly decrepit farms and grasslands. It's a common place for grass fires How many people do these things usually employ?
In other words, where land is cheap. DC's dont normally employ that many people.
can be found at http://www.muphin.net/aussie_tourism.html
Q: Will I be able to speek English most places I go? (USA)
Too right cobber, you wouldn't know your arse from your elbow if you couldn't half manage a convo here. No wukka's, Bruce.
The Apple store has the same problems as the Android store. Apple has no real advantage in this regard. People that think they do are just stupid fanboys kidding themselves.
This x 1000.
The only app store I have seen that doesn't suffer from a large volume of similar crap applications is Steam... but Steam is a special case as video games take a lot of resources to develop so making crap clone games is too expensive to be viable.
It's hard to find a good application on Android or Iphone and trial and error sucks, both figuratively and literally (my battery life).
You want people to actually listen to it? Fine. Put a machine in the waiting area and require people to enter the machine and listen to the speech for 30 seconds, before being given a 'boarding order.'.
If you read the article, or even just the summary you'd know it's not about the safety video (which you should pay attention to, even if you've seen it before as things occasionally change)* it's about people not listening to instructions issued by flight attendants in person or over the PA that are not part of the usual safety briefing. This is not uncommon, in fact a flight attendant has to tell several people to put their tray tables and seat backs up every single flight and this is hard enough to do with arrogant and selfish people when they can hear you.
I dont envy their jobs, but I do respect them and listen to them (especially since if I have a medical emergency on a flight, they will be the ones helping me).
* look at how many people in this thread still think cushions are flotation devices, that's why people need to pay attention.
This analogy would ALMOST work except for there aren't 42 italian restaurants lined up, side by side, doing the same thing, all for $.99 with the only visible difference being olive garden vs olive g4rden.
In London and various other cities there is "China Town" with Many Chinese restaurants. Amongst them is Mr Wu's which is an all you can eat buffet for 5UKP (about US$8).
In Manchester there is curry mile with many Indian restaurants. Again many are very cheap.
It is a completely valid analogy.
Not really, I've been to many places like this "Curry mile" you speak of. There's a crap-load of them in Asia and I love them (in fact this Curry Mile sounds like a wonderful place). The thing is, they're all selling something different. You dont have 32 stalls selling the same variety of noodles, there's a lot of variety even to someone who has no idea about the culture they're eating in. Everything is cheap and you end up getting 4 or 5 different things but still comes down to less than you'd spend at Burger King.
A better analogy is 32 McDonalds all in a row. All doing the same thing but having slightly different names. Very few app stores dont suffer from this (Steam would be the only one I can think of off the top of my head) the difference is in how they manage it.
Thanks God we have flight attendants taking care of our self...
What if the passenger doesn't care about it's OWN safety? Let him ignore the safety instructions, it's his own decision! FAA and/or the flight attendants are not our mothers..
What if that passenger is between you and the exit?
Here's the thing, I care about safety (not just mine but yours as well, I'm a nice guy like that) so I dont want to have to deal with people who are too ignorant, arrogant or self-entitled to care about safety putting my life in danger.
I think the No-Fly list needs to be expanded to include idiots that are too ignorant or arrogant about safety.
United has a cheesy video too, where the presenter is in a bumpy taxi talking about seatbelts and on a beach talking about stowing tray tables and putting your seats in their full upright and locked position for takeoff.
You haven't seen the terrible video done by Air New Zealand... it's demonstrated by the All Blacks*, the New Zealand national rugby team. That takes cheesy safety videos to a new level of cringeworthyness.
*Yes, they really are called the "All Blacks" and they're not all black.
You mean the Miracle on the Hudson where exactly 0% of the people took their seat cushion which can be used as a flotation device? Well done, flight attendants. Well done.
Yes, that means they did it right. People carrying seat cushions would have slowed down the evacuation.
I've travelled to 5 continents on dozens of different airlines, no airline has ever suggested using the seat cushions as flotation devices. You have a life jacket under your seat (or in the compartment beside your seat in business class) which you are told not to inflate until you leaving the aircraft as inflating it inside the aircraft slows down the evacuation. Also, the emergency slides are rafts (and you're told to remove all pointed footwear before using the slides.
Silly ideas like "the cushions are flotation devices" are the reason people need to listen to safety announcements rather than assuming that they know everything. On every airline I've flown on, the seat cushions aren't even removable.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
Actually, the brace position does have a huge effect on your survival of a crash landing. It stops your head accelerating rapidly forward, and then backward relative to your body. That illiminates a whole huge class of possible brain injuries.
I think people dumb enough to think the brace position doesn't help or that flight attendants not need to issue emergency instructions aren't at risk from brain injuries.
They don't want people looking at their devices with their headphones in when the captain says "brace for impact" a moment before you're supposed to land normally. It's not that hard to just be ready for an important announcement before takeoff and landing. And they're right that you want everything stowed away for those two phases of the flight.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
No you wont. You'll sue the airline for not making the announcement clear enough. Airline will lose and they'll ban PED completely. Personally, I dont want this scenario.
Are people that afraid to be left alone with their thoughts for five minutes that they cant put their tablets down. The article said,
the union would also be fine with a policy that allows devices to be turned on during takeoff and landing, as long as they're stowed away.
Why is it that hard for people to put down their tablets for 5 minutes during the most dangerous time of the flight? Are people really that self-entitled these days (and I used to argue against this so I really dont want it to be true).
I'd also like to point out, from the article:
But the attendants union is concerned about the safety implications of the move. They claim that in at least one instance, a tablet "became a projectile during turbulence,"
First let me say, I fucking told you so. For years I've been saying the real threat is from tablets and phones becoming projectiles. For years people have been calling this nonsense and I'm going to trust a cabin crew union over a butterfingered tablet owner any day.
Now this is only a significant risk during specific situations such as take off, landing and heavy turbulence. Is it really too much to ask that people demonstrate a little common sense and self restraint... and put the devices away during these specific times. I use my tablet all the time on budget airlines... but I know enough about flying to stow it when things get a little too rough. This is made even worse by the fact people aren't even holding onto their tablets, I mean, who holds a 10" tablet for 6 hours... Fuck no, you lean it against the seat in front or on the tray table, sit back and enjoy your video. As it's only being held there by it's own weight the risk of it becoming a projectile during turbulence is very real.
Finally yes, I've been asked to stow my dead tree based book for take off on several airlines ranging from Southwest to Singapore to Cebu Pacific.